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Awesome Open Hardware Awesome

🛠 Helpful items for making and learning about open source hardware projects.

Contents

Projects

  • Arduino - Arduino is an open-source electronics platform.
  • Prusa3D - 3D printer manufacturer who shares their work open online.
  • Precious Plastic - Tools to make plastic recycling as simple as possible.
  • Open Source Ecology - Industrial machines made open.
  • SafeCast - Environmental measurements for the public domain.
  • WikiHouse - Digital designed open housing.
  • RepRap - Humanity's first general-purpose, self-replicating manufacturing machine.
  • OpenBCI - Brain computer interface.
  • OpenMV - Open-source, low-cost machine vision platform.
  • OpenSPIM - Open Access platform for Three-dimensional (3D) microscopy.
  • mesoSPIM - Open-source light-sheet microscopes for imaging in cleared tissue.
  • Mutable Instruments - Open-source eurorack classics.
  • openUC2 - Open-source modular microscopy toolbox.
  • OpenFlexure - Open-source, 3D-printed microscope, including a precise mechanical stage.
  • Open-Source-Rover - A six wheeled, build-it-yourself, open-source rover.
  • Biohack Academy - Open-source biotechnological hardware such as Incubator, Thermocycler, Centrifuge, Microscope, etc.
  • GaudiLab - Open-source hardware projects for biology laboratories.
  • Winterbloom - Open-source eurorack modules, Thea has some stellar design write-ups on her blog.
  • Open Gamma Detector - Hackable, low-cost gamma-ray spectrometer.
  • Opulo - Project that develops a pick and place machine.
  • FarmBot - automated gardening machine to grow vegetables.
  • PiKVM - Open and inexpensive DIY IP-KVM based on Raspberry Pi.
  • Mekanika - Tools & Machines for Makers

Talks

Papers

Conferences

  • Fosdem - Open Source event online on 5 & 6 February 2022.
  • Open Hardware Summit - Annual conference on open hardware on 22 April 2022.
  • Maker Faire - A celebration of the Maker Movement, locally organized.

Platforms

  • Open Hardware Repository - For electronics designers at experimental physics facilities to collaborate on open hardware designs.
  • Open Hardware Observatory - Free blueprints for sustainable open hardware.
  • Instructables - Instructables is a place that lets you explore, document, and share your creations.
  • Hackaday.io - Hackaday.io is the world's largest collaborative hardware development community.
  • Hackster.io - Connecting developers where exploring tomorrow starts today.
  • Openhardware.io - Tracking amazing open hardware projects.
  • Openhardware.science - Make open science hardware ubiquitous by 2025.
  • Openlifescience - Program to make Open Science ambassadors in research.
  • Thingiverse - A platform for sharing and contributing to design hardware for 3D printing, laser cutting and CNC milling.
  • Kitspace.org - A place to build and share electronics projects.

Podcasts

Books

  • Building open source hardware - Book by Alicia Gibb, on building open source hardware from 2014.
  • Open-source Lab - Book by Josua m. Pearce, how to build your own hardware and reduce costs.
  • Free to Make - Book by Dale Dougherty, how the maker movement is changing our schools, our jobs, and our minds.
  • The bridge - Issue of the national academy of engineering on open source hardware.

Training programs

Further Readings

  • Open Source Guide - A website created by GitHub to help people work on open source projects.
  • Wikipedia - General information about Open Source Hardware.
  • Open Collective - Enables groups to quickly set up a collective, raise funds and manage them transparently.
  • The Journal of Open Hardware - (JOH) is a peer reviewed open access publication for open hardware research and development.
  • OSHWA Certification - Provides an easy and straightforward way for producers to indicate that their products meet a uniform and well-defined standard for open-source compliance.
  • HardwareX Journal - An open access scientific hardware journal.

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Contributing

Additional suggestions are welcomed! Check out contributing.md for guidelines. If you ever want to reference us, find us at delftopenhardware.nl. But you are in no way required to do so. (NOTE: If you're a maintainer listed on here who would like to be removed, just open an issue.)